How Can My Sister's Son-In-Law Work And Claim Disability? Q: My sister's son-in-law lost his job several years ago, and not long after filed for disability. My sister says that after a recent tornado, he made "good" ...
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Benefit Bulletin: July 2013
Cuts to Meals On Wheels Having "Devastating Impact" Across the country Meals on Wheels programs are reducing the number of meals delivered to low-income seniors or shutting down altogether according to a new survey. ...
Provision To Prevent Social Security Payments Based On Illegal Work In Senate Immigration Bill
TSCL Calls Seniors To Action With President Obama pushing for an immigration bill "by the end of the summer," Congress is rapidly moving major immigration reform legislation. Under the bill passed in the Senate, an es ...
Congressional Corner: An Open Letter to TSCL Petition Signers
Representative C.W. Bill Young (FL-13) Thank you for signing a petition organized by The Senior Citizens League on various issues dealing with Social Security that are important to our nation’s elderly. As a Represent ...
The Looming 20% Social Security Cut That Nobody’s Talking About
By Mary Johnson, Editor Imagine checking your bank balance and discovering your Social Security payment is 20% less than it should be. You contact the Social Security Administration only to be told that the Trust Fund ...
Chained CPI Affects More Than Just COLAs
12 Ways Seniors Would Get Less, Pay More Efforts are quietly underway to lay the groundwork for a far-reaching fiscal deal that involves Social Security cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) and Medicare benefits. White ...
Senior Survey: Monthly Benefits Rose Less Than $39, Expenses Rose More Than $119
Mary Johnson, Editor Ninety-seven percent of seniors say that their monthly Social Security benefits rose by less than $39 in 2013, but only 11% say their monthly expenses rose by less than that. According to TSCL's n ...
What Seniors Think About Proposals To “Fix” Medicare
TSCL Releases Results of 2013 Senior Survey Medicare spending in 2013 accounts for 16% of the federal budget. That spending is projected to almost double as a share of the nation’s economy in coming years, according t ...
Benefit Bulletin: June 2013
What Caused The Social Security Notch? The Social Security Notch is the unexpectedly steep drop in benefits that affects people born from 1917 through 1926. This generation of seniors receives lower benefits than othe ...
Legislative Update: June 2013
Social Security's Solvency Can Be Improved Without Cutting Benefits By Jessie Gibbons, Legislative Assistant Since its inception in 1937, Social Security has been financed by a dedicated payroll tax on all earnings ...
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